Via Clepsydrée @ Flickr.
I am not worthy of calling Nawal El Saadawi an “Honorary Harpy” but I will categorize this post as such anyway. Nawal El Saadawi is renowned Egyptian human rights activist, feminist, medical doctor and former political prisoner who has written extensively on Arab...

Warning: motherhood may alter how you use one of these. via {amy} @ flickr
It’s kind of a no-brainer to say that things change when you become a parent. Sometimes the changes are the ones you expect; sometimes not. The thing is that it seems like the only time people talk about this phenomenon...

Via Wolfgang @ Flickr
In a famous essay criticizing Updike, and Roth, and Mailer (especially good riddance by the way to the latter pregnant-wife-beating waste of oxygen, which fuckery I notice got at best cursory mention in his obits) as Great Male Narcissists, the late David Foster Wallace said that...